4  Create an email account

With a hosted site comes the opportunity to create email accounts for any of the hosted domains.

A noreply email account on the domain is needed for sending notifications, but other accounts can be added rather than using third-party ones that may be scanned by their providers.

Steps

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The role to perform this procedure is: Site owner.

To create an email account:1Log into the cPanel console◢

if not already.

2Open the Email Accounts page◢

by clicking the Email Accounts link in the Email section.

3Initiate the creation◢

by clicking on the +Create button.

4Expand the Optional Settings section◢

by clicking on its Edit Settings button.

5Specify required information◢

by taking the actions of:

#	Field	Action	Example
a	Domain	Select the domain to use for the email account	mydomain.com
b	Username	Type in name of the email account. Use noreply for the noreply account for a Smallsite Domain site	noreply
c	Password	Type in a long password. See Remembering for a suggestion	something-long-but-obscure
d	Storage Space	Type in the size and select the units. Suggestions: - 500MB for busy account with attachements. - 10MB for noreply account that is not used to send emails. - 100MB for noreply account used to send emails	100MB
e	Automatically Create …	Not recommended. Select the Do Not Automatically Create Folders option. See Subaddressing	Do not …

6Create the account◢

by clicking the +Create button.

The Email Accounts page is displayed again with the new email address added to the list.

7Optionally, Create a forwarder◢

to use as an alias for the account. As many as required.

8Optionally, Add account to email client◢

for each device to be used to access the account.

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